How to order:
Please make cheques payable to Safer Medicines Trust and send your order to:
Safer Medicines Trust, PO Box 122, Kingsbridge TQ7 9AX
Leaflets are free but we would really appreciate donations to cover the costs of printing and posting.
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LeafletThe focus of this leaflet is safety testing of new drugs, highlighting the dangers of using animals and the improvements in safety that could be acheived with more modern methods.
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Our film, Safer Medicines, showcases some of the latest technologies that we believe could supplant animal tests in drug development to deliver safer drugs to patients, in less time and at less cost. Watch the 26 minute film, a 3 minute trailer and 4 minutes of its launch in the House of Commons. Free but donations to cover postage greatly appreciated. |
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A Critical Look at Animal ExperimentationA booklet examining the impact of animal experimentation on research into cancer, AIDS, neurological disorders and others, as well as outlining more valid human-based methods of research. Free but donations to cover postage greatly appreciated. |
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Human tissues are invaluable for medical research –how can we make them more available?Summary of the proceedings of a conference in the House of Lords 20 October 2009 Free but donations to cover postage greatly appreciated. |
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Proceedings of the Speed and Safety in Drug Discovery SymposiumAvailable here or please contact us for hard copies, for which we need to charge £5 to cover postage. |
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Human-based Systems for Translational ResearchEdited by Dr Robert Coleman and available in print or online. Written by worldwide experts within the many fields covered, each chapter can be purchased individually.
An essential text for researchers working in translational medicine in both industry and academia.
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Brute Science: Dilemmas of Animal Experimentationby Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks A good but very academic book. “This is as important a book in applied ethics as one can hope to find. It mounts an an impressive scientific and moral case against the current practice of animal experimentation, demanding that we either provide an adequate defense of that practice or radically change it.” – James P. Sterba (Philosophy, University of Notre Dame) £10 |
World Patient Safety Day is grounded in the most fundamental principle of medicine – first do no harm “Medication Safety” is the theme for World Patient Safety Day 2022. Safer Medicines Trust is a patient safety charity whose mission is to improve the safety of medicines, so we very much support calls for “Medication Without Harm”. The World […]
The crisis of Alzheimer’s disease research: it’s time to embrace a new approach to help patientsThe problem Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a leading cause of death in the UK and along with other dementias, is responsible for almost 11% of all deaths in England.1 More than 209,000 new cases are diagnosed each year across the UK.2 It remains a leading cause of death and disability worldwide3, affecting nearly 50 million […]
